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Now here&#8217;s a restaurant that is closed, and I&#8217;m offered the ability to edit the review &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/imgpics.s3.amazonaws.com\/e8826636bbcb49c1b2a05f1d009916cd.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"272\" height=\"456\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Then I can simply edit the review and save&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/imgpics.s3.amazonaws.com\/e9facf44cd5947debc212defcd232914.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"283\" height=\"455\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>and in just a few minutes, the &#8220;review&#8221;\u00a0 is live<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/imgpics.s3.amazonaws.com\/b770b41d78d343e499b3522306928a51.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"315\" height=\"290\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s also worth noting that even though I have taken the <a href=\"http:\/\/support.google.com\/plus\/bin\/answer.py?hl=en&amp;answer=2622993\" target=\"_blank\">necessary steps to make my name visible on my Google reviews<\/a>, these hijacked \/ edited reviews are still showing up as anonymous, from &#8220;a Google user&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/imgpics.s3.amazonaws.com\/f8f2fda6a41047c8af9d9c82043f6c36.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"500\" height=\"107\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I know that recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seroundtable.com\/google-local-app-15382.html\" target=\"_blank\">Google came out with a new version<\/a> of the Google Places App for the iPhone, but I hope they do the same thing for Android soon and squash this bug&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">After all, they wouldn&#8217;t want this to get around, would they?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a bug in the Google Places app on my Android phone that is allowing me to edit the last review for any local business. 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